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AYLI YA SIDI RABI

Taken from: Targ (CD/LP/DL)
Release Date: 17.02.2017
Glitterbeat Records

It’s the forgotten place. Lying between the mountains of northwest Tunisia and the Algerian border, the Bargou valley and the village named after it lie isolated, away from the world. It’s poor, barren country, but standing apart, Bargou has developed its own culture that had never been documented until Nidhal Yahyaoui began the task. Born in the valley, he grew up hearing his parents and family sing the songs that belong to the region, and he was determined that the music and traditions shouldn’t slip away into obscurity. With Targ, the album he’s made with his band Bargou 08, Yahyaoui has perfectly fused the past and the present to place Bargou on the map.

“Nidhal began collecting songs from all over the valley more than ten years ago,” explains producer and keyboard player Sofyann Ben Youssef, who’s known Yahyaoui since they were both ten years old. “No one had ever done that before. He listened to the women, to the village elders, and he learned all the variations on the songs. This is his passion, and he asked me to join him.”

Together, they assembled a collective of both local and European musicians who spent three weeks playing in the Yahyaoui family home in Bargou village. They worked on the material, shaping a sound that harnessed the power of the tradition and connected it to something the young would understand.

“It was important for us to record there and to use some local musicians on the record. But we also wanted the young people in the village to see that something could be created right there and that they didn’t need a lot of money to do it, to inspire them.’

At the heart are the songs themselves, and the insights they offer into the life of the Bargou valley through time. “We didn’t choose the material on Targ,” Ben Yousef says. “The songs chose us. The place made the selection for us. They brought it all alive"

With Targ, Bargou 08 make sure that the valley and its people will never be forgotten.

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MA KAYEN WALOU KIMA L’AMOUR
Paroles et Musiques
Hocine Boukella
____________________ 
Qrit ou jebt ed diplôme
A lala lalala A lala lalala
Gul li wach efhemt el youm
A lala lalala A lala lalala
Ana khatti mestour
Ma kayen walou khir men l’amourLah yeslah es scientifique
A lala lalala A lala lalala
Le blad temchi be trafic
A lala lalala A lala lalala
Ma yeslah ed dectour
Ma kayen walou khir men l’amourBel âarabo-musulman
A lala lalala A lala lalala
Heblet en nas carrément
A lala lalala A lala lalala
We tâayyet « au secours ! »
Ma kayen walou khir men l’amourHada tghabbar fel kif
A lala lalala A lala lalala
Hada fel birra kif-kif
A lala lalala A lala lalala
W ana khabet b ennour
Ma kayen walou khir men l’amourHada nawwed el bounya
A lala lalala A lala lalala
Ki takhser El Mouloudia
A lala lalala A lala lalala
Li yhab idir es sport
Ma kayen walou khir men l’amourOu Hada âad i terrorizi
A lala lalala A lala lalala
Ki chaf ekhtou sivilizi
A lala lalala A lala lalala
Ki tetlef el oumour
Ma kayen walou khir men l’amourIzid i welli hadak el vote
A lala lalala A lala lalala
W enzidou n kherdjou kebbot
A lala lalala A lala lalala
Sedjel f eddestour :
« Ma kayen walou khir men l’amour. »

Marti dima tfelsef aâliya
A lala lalala A lala lalala
W etsaqsi wach isellek had eddenya
A lala lalala A lala lalala
Ya mra engoul lek el miyyour
Ma kayen walou khir men l’amour
	
IL N’Y A RIEN DE MEILLEUR QUE L’AMOUR
Traduction
Hocine Boukella
____________________ 
Toi qui es bardé de diplômes,
Tu n’as rien compris, bonhomme !
Moi ma ligne est tracée :
Il n’y a rien de meilleur que l’amourA quoi sert un scientifique
Quand le pays vit de trafic
A quoi sert le docteur
Il n’y a rien de meilleur que l’amourC’est ce mot : « arabo-musulman »
Qui nous rend fous, carrément
Et nous crions : « Au Secours ! »
Il n’y a rien de meilleur que l’amourY en a qui sombrent dans le kif
D’autres dans l’alcool, kif-kif
Moi, je me saoule de lumière
Il n’y a rien de meilleur que l’amourY en a qui font la bagarre, le catch
Quand leur club perd un match
Mais si, vraiment, t’aime le sport
Il n’y a rien de meilleur que l’amourY en a qui se met à terroriser
En voyant ses sœurs « civilisées »
Quand les idées s’embrouillent
Il n’y a rien de meilleur que l’amourOn ira voter, une fois de plus
On sera dupés, une fois de plus
Moi, ma loi n’a qu’un seul article :
« Il n’y a rien de meilleur que l’amour »

Ma femme, toujours, me demande :
Qu’est-ce qui peut sauver ce monde ?
Femme ! Moi, j’ai la solution :
Il n’y a rien de meilleur que l’amour

THERE ISN’T SUCH A THING AS LOVE
Translation
Aric Wizenberg
____________________
You, you who have bunch of degrees,
You haven’t understood anything, fellow!
Me I made my line :
There isn’t such a thing as loveWhat’s the reason of a scientist
When the country lives from traffic
What’s the reason of a doctor
There isn’t such a thing as loveIt’s this word: “arabo-muslim”
That drives us mad, clearly
And we shout: “Help!”
There isn’t such a thing as loveSome sink into the kif*
Some others into alcohol, it’s the same.
Me, I get drunk from light
There isn’t such a thing as loveSome are doing fights, wrestling
When their favorite club lose a game.
But if you really love sport
There isn’t such a thing as loveSome begin to terrorize
When they see their sisters « civilized »
When ideas become confused
There isn’t such a thing as loveWe are going to vote, once again
We will be deceived, once again
Me, my law just has one article :
There isn’t such a thing as love

My wife always asks me:
What could save this world?
Darling! Me, I have the solution:
There isn’t such a thing as love

(*) kif = hashish

Ma Kayen Walou Kima l'Amour

Glitterbeat is committed to global sounds and artists that don’t necessarily rubber-stamp our pre-conceptions of what regional music sounds like.  We live in a world of ever increasing intersections and the global musical conversation does not operate according to straight, predictable, and easily delineated rules. It is a conversation that is being reinvented and revolutionized each day.

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